Answer to Question #251503 in Management for lora

Question

Evaluate the impact of balancing benefits to reduce harms and cost through screening and prevention services.

Answer 1

Screening is an effective way to detect a particular condition or disease early, Early detection means getting the right treatment at the right time, which gives you better control over your health. Screening program can only be considered to be a “preventive” measure if it aims to determine and influence risk factors, or detect and treat abnormal changes that could later develop into a disease since every screening test can be harmful too. It is important that both the benefits and harms of a screening test are assessed in studies before introducing it at a large scale for example the benefits of the screening test outweigh the risks. Screening should be done only for diseases with serious consequences, so that screening tests could potentially very reliable and have clear benefits to people’s health therefore balancing this benefits of screening reduces harms and cost.